Pacific : silicon chips and surfboards, coral reefs and atom bombs, brutal dictators, fading empires, and the coming collision of the world's superpowers / Simon Winchester.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062315410 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780062315427 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xiv, 492 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015]
- Copyright: ©2015.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The great thermonuclear sea -- Mr. Ibuka's radio revolution -- The ecstasies of wave-riding -- A dire and dangerous irritation -- Farewell, all my friends and foes -- Echoes of distant thunder -- How goes the lucky country? -- The fires in the deep -- A fragile and uncertain sea -- Of masters and commanders -- Epilogue: the call of the running tide. |
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Subject: | Pacific Ocean > Geography. Pacific Ocean > History. Ocean and civilization. Pacific Ocean > Description and travel. Winchester, Simon > Travel. |
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